2010/08/22

Throttling Blizzard's Downloader App

So I caved and downloaded StarCraft 2. Or.. well I'm downloading it now.
One thing I noticed is that it's doing the peer-to-peer distribution method via Bittorrent.
Nice. Except their app doesn't allow you to throttle upload speeds. Suck.
And once your upload is saturated your download slows to a crawl. Super suck.
Since I don't have QoS settings on my airport (thanks Apple),
I had to opt for local bandwidth throttling. Fortunately my Mac OS ships with ipfw (thanks Apple!). Here's the quick and dirty on how to do it. :)